>Martijn Tonies wrote:
>> > [snip]
>> > >The newly recommended style is to create a one row table to
>> > > use for this purpose only and substitute it for RDB$DATABASE.
>> ...
>> Call id DUAL and you'll be Oracle compatible :)
>
>
>Please tell me why a single-row table should be called DUAL.
>(And, don't tell me "Because Oracle does so"!)
>

Notice the ':)' -> Because Oracle does so!

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